Merchandise
BRC 2024 T-Shirt
As you know, the start of a new count season also means that we are launching a new annual T-Shirt. For the 16th edition of the Batumi Raptor Count, we’re featuring a new species on our T-Shirts: the Black Kite.
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Elien Hoekstra
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At BRC:
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The first time Elien joined the count was in 2017, for only two short weeks.
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Merchandise
BRC 2023 T-Shirt
As you know, the start of a new count season also means that we are launching a new annual T-Shirt. For the 15th edition of the Batumi Raptor Count, we’ve decided to feature a new species on our T-Shirts, the Booted Eagle.
Merchandise
Bird Artwork by Jérôme Wey
BRC is happy to announce our collaboration with Jérôme Wey!
Merchandise
BRC 2022 T-Shirt
We are glad to be back counting raptors again! It took us no less than 14 years to — finally — feature this charismatic species on our annual T-shirt: the Short-toed Eagle. Who can resist these eyes and this T-shirt?
Reports & Research
Spring Report 2022 published
The third and final spring count gave us beautiful snow-covered surroundings and raptors in perfect light, we witnessed the return of birds and spring.
Field updates
Already 400K raptors during the 3rd and final Spring Count
The 3rd pilot Spring Count is already halfway through, we have been counting for one and a half months and have already counted 400k raptors this season.
Reports & Research
Update: Moult study of Batumi raptors
The Batumi Raptor Count has done extraordinary raptor migration monitoring for years, but apart from all the migration data we have been collecting for so long, the bottleneck offers another interesting possibility.